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揭示合并星系团MACSJ0025中暗物质的性质。4 -1222

Revealing the properties of dark matter in the merging cluster MACSJ0025.4-1222

Maruša Bradač, Steven W. Allen, Tommaso Treu, Harald Ebeling, Richard Massey, R. Glenn Morris, Anja von der Linden, Douglas Applegate, ;

摘要:

我们约束的物理性质的暗物质使用新发现的大规模合并星系团MACSJ0025.4-1222。正如之前子弹星系团(1 E0657 -56)的例子所显示的那样,这样的系统是探测孤立的暗物质和区分冷暗物质(CDM)和其他场景(例如自相互作用的暗物质,替代引力理论)的理想实验室。MACSJ0025.4-1222由两个在z=0.586处具有相似丰度的合并子集群组成。我们从钱德拉X射线数据测量的X射线发射气体的分布,并发现它显然是从星系的分布位移。基于哈勃太空望远镜观测和凯克弧光谱学的强(来自高度扭曲的弧的信息)和弱(使用弱扭曲的背景星系)引力透镜分析证实了子星系团具有接近相等的质量。每个子星系团的总质量分布都明显偏离了热X射线发射气体(主要的重子成分)的峰值(在>4sigma的显著性上),但与星系的分布一致。我们测量了热气体(0.09^{+0.07}_{-0.03})和恒星(0.010^{+0.007}_{-0.004})的质量分数,与典型星系团的质量分数一致,发现暗物质是引力场的主要贡献者。在假设子星系团在天球平面上发生了正面碰撞的情况下,我们得到了暗物质自相互作用截面的数量级估计,σ/m <4cm ^2/g,再次肯定了子弹星系团关于暗物质无碰撞性质的结果。

英文摘要:

We constrain the physical nature of dark matter using the newly identified massive merging galaxy cluster MACSJ0025.4-1222. As was previously shown by the example of the Bullet Cluster (1E0657-56), such systems are ideal laboratories for detecting isolated dark matter, and distinguishing between cold dark matter (CDM) and other scenarios (e.g. self-interacting dark matter, alternative gravity theories). MACSJ0025.4-1222 consists of two merging subclusters of similar richness at z=0.586. We measure the distribution of X-ray emitting gas from Chandra X-ray data and find it to be clearly displaced from the distribution of galaxies. A strong (information from highly distorted arcs) and weak (using weakly distorted background galaxies) gravitational lensing analysis based on Hubble Space Telescope observations and Keck arc spectroscopy confirms that the subclusters have near-equal mass. The total mass distribution in each of the subclusters is clearly offset (at >4sigma significance) from the peak of the hot X-ray emitting gas (the main baryonic component), but aligned with the distribution of galaxies. We measure the fractions of mass in hot gas (0.09^{+0.07}_{-0.03}) and stars (0.010^{+0.007}_{-0.004}), consistent with those of typical clusters, finding that dark matter is the dominant contributor to the gravitational field. Under the assumption that the subclusters experienced a head-on collision in the plane of the sky, we obtain an order-of-magnitude estimate of the dark matter self-interaction cross-section of sigma/m < 4cm^2/g, re-affirming the results from the Bullet Cluster on the collisionless nature of dark matter.

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